Drew Magary

Despite spending most of the NFC Championship game on the sidelines because he was playing poorly, Rams running back Todd Gurley was in a good mood after the game. So good that he was able to poke some fun at how much his team benefited from poor officiating by posting this funny and clearly fake image on his Instagram page. There are maybe four people on the entire planet who saw that image and wondered if it was real, and two of them happen to be professional sports analysts named Mike. First up, we’ve got Ringer podcaster, Athletic writer, and true dumbass Mike Lombardi: Mike!! Next up we have gaseous sports grump Mike Francesa: Miiiiiiike!! … [Read more...] about Two Dumb Mikes

MLK Day is one of the few days a year on which a brand or institution is guaranteed to shame itself through a ham-fisted tribute to the civil rights hero. This year, I don’t think anyone is going to do a worse job than Florida State University, which sent out and then quickly deleted the tweet you see above. I’m not sure how that image is meant to be interpreted as anything other than Martin Luther King, Jr. doing Florida State’s tomahawk chop celebration. Creating an image like that is a bad idea on any day, but particularly one following a weekend during which the biggest news story in the country involved a bunch a MAGA-hatted teens doing the tomahawk chop while harassing a Native American elder. … [Read more...] about FSU Honors MLK With Unbelievably Tone Deaf Photoshop

Well, here’s the messiest moment of this Australian Open to date, tainting the end of a five-set epic. No. 23 seed Pablo Carreño Busta won two sets, then No. 8 seed Kei Nishikori won two sets, and then they played on to a fifth-set super-tiebreak, which goes to 10 points, win by two. Considering they’d been going at it for almost five hours before this, the quality of play was remarkably high. Here’s the tiebreak in its entirety; at 3-2 (3:27 in the below video) you’ll see the best point of the match, a 20-point rally that ends on a down-the-line exclamation point. Keep watching the tiebreak and you’ll arrive at the actual drama. At 8-5 (10:10 in the above video) Nishikori approaches the net; PCB attempts a passing shot that clips the net cord and lands shallow in the court on the baseline. Nishikori then hits a putaway down the line while PCB is guessing the other direction—but just a split-second before Nishikori strikes the ball, a … [Read more...] about Poor Pablo Carreño Busta Chucked His Bag And Raged Off The Court After A Thorny Call

The Chicago Cubs held their annual fan convention over the weekend, and one of the festivities was former Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster hosting a mock late night show with current Cubs players as his guests. This was a chance for players to “cut loose” and “show their real personalities,” and that led to Kris Bryant taking a very light jab at the city of St. Louis: To any normal person, this was nothing but a bit of unremarkable, stage-managed fun, but to Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina it was an assault on sacred baseball norms carried out by a stupid loser: Buddy, please relax. … [Read more...] about Sensitive Pee Baby Yadier Molina Didn’t Like Kris Bryant Calling St. Louis “Boring”

It’s the day after the conference championship games and it is unfortunately time to talk about the Eagles. This is because, according to a new report from Philly Voice, the Eagles really hate franchise quarterback Carson Wentz. But also, according to a few tweets from Wentz’s teammates, everyone loves him! We’ll start with the Philly Voice report, which claims a half dozen Eagles players among its sources and lays out how Wentz is a “selfish” and “uncompromising” teammate who isn’t as loved by his teammates as backup quarterback Nick Foles is. The main issue that the sources quoted within the piece seem to have with Wentz is that he overcomplicates the offensive scheme while making it run poorly because he plays favorites. From the story: The glaring difference is that Foles, every source stated, would go through progressions within the offense — exactly how it was designed to run — and hit the open receiver, regardless of … [Read more...] about Carson Wentz’s Teammates Either Love Him Or Despise Him